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Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Each episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo is a structured dialogue between Lucas and Luna, dissecting the decisions that define engineering organizations. Lucas, with a journalist's precision, and Luna, probing from the practitioner's chair, examine real CTO playbooks — from Netflix's architecture team restructuring to how Stripe scaled its engineering manager track. They walk through the trade-offs in code review velocity vs. quality, the economics of platform teams, and the talent signals…
Episodes
Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership ConversationsHow One CTO Uses Architecture Fitness Functions to Prevent Drift
Episode 49 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo explores architecture fitness functions—automated guardrails that catch architectural drift before it becomes tech…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Used Observability to Find a Memory Leak Saving Millions
Lucas and Luna dive into a real-world story from a mid-sized SaaS company where the CTO used observability data — not intuition — to locate a subtle memory…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Replaced Sprints With Flow-Based Planning
Episode 47 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo explores how a CTO at a mid-size SaaS company abandoned two-week sprints in favor of flow-based planning. Lucas and…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How Uber Lost Billions on Self-Driving Cars and What It Teaches Us
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into Uber's self-driving car program, a project that burned through over $2.5 billion before being sold off in 2020. They…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Used Platform Teams to Double Developer Throughput
In Episode 45 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, hosts Lucas and Luna explore a specific organizational shift that one CTO at a mid-sized fintech company made to…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Architecture Decision Records to Prevent Tech Debt
Lucas and Luna explore how architecture decision records (ADRs) help engineering teams avoid accumulating tech debt. They walk through a real case from a…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Replaced Performance Reviews With Continuous Feedback
Lucas and Luna explore how a CTO at a 200-person fintech company scrapped annual performance reviews in favor of continuous feedback loops. They break down the…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One Engineering Manager Stopped Her Team's Death March
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dissect a real-world case of a death march project that nearly destroyed a team at a mid-size…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Blameless Postmortems to Improve Reliability
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how one CTO transformed her engineering team's approach to incidents by institutionalizing blameless postmortems. They…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why Your Team Needs a Technical Decision Record
Lucas and Luna dissect the Technical Decision Record (TDR) — a lightweight practice that captures the rationale behind tough engineering choices. They walk…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Code Reviews to Find Org Design Problems
In this episode of Tech Leadership, Lucas and Luna explore a surprising diagnostic tool for organizational design: the code review. Drawing on a real case from…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Cut Cloud Costs by Rethinking Commitments
Episode 38 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna explore how a real CTO saved forty percent on cloud bills by replacing reserved instances with…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Turned On-Call Pain Into Developer Leverage
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a radical shift in on-call philosophy. They examine how one CTO at a mid-sized SaaS…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Replaced Standups With a Status Board
Lucas and Luna dive into a radical shift in team communication: one CTO at a 40-person SaaS company replaced daily standup meetings with an asynchronous status…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One Team Cut Their Cloud Bill By Changing Nothing
Episode 35 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dive into a counterintuitive cost-saving strategy: instead of optimizing infrastructure, a mid-stage…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One Engineering Manager Cut Cognitive Load by Adopting Async Communication
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how asynchronous communication can dramatically reduce cognitive load for engineering…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why You Should Write Your RFCs in Public
Most engineering teams write RFCs (Request for Comments) behind closed doors. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore why publishing RFCs to the entire company…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One Team Uses Decision Logs to Stop Repeating Mistakes
In Episode 32 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the practice of decision logs—a lightweight documentation technique that helps…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Uses Decision Logs to Stop Repeating Mistakes
Lucas and Luna explore the concept of a decision log — a lightweight practice where engineering leaders document every major technical decision, including the…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One Team Decided Their Database Was the Wrong Database
Episode 30 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo dives into the hardest infrastructure decision a CTO can face: when to migrate off a database that's been running in…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How to Build an Internal API Platform That Developers Actually Use
Many engineering teams build internal developer platforms that nobody adopts. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack why — and what one team did differently…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How We Cut Deploy Times By Building an Internal Developer Platform
In this episode, Lucas and Luna discuss how an internal developer platform (IDP) can dramatically reduce deployment times and cognitive load for engineering…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One Engineering Team Cut Cloud Costs by 40 Percent Without Hurting Performance
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a real-world case study of how a mid-sized SaaS team reduced their AWS bill by 40%…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Cut Decision Debt With RFCs
Lucas and Luna break down how a CTO at a mid-stage SaaS company used lightweight Request for Comments (RFCs) to eliminate decision debt. They walk through a…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One Team Cut Their Incident Response Time by 70 Percent
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a case study of a mid-stage SaaS company that slashed its mean time to acknowledge…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why Your On-Call Rotation Is Destroying Team Morale
Lucas and Luna break down why traditional on-call rotations damage engineering culture and what to do instead. Using concrete examples from a mid-sized SaaS…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
What Your Engineering Team Needs from an API Style Guide
Episode 23 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo dives into the surprisingly high-stakes world of API style guides. Lucas and Luna discuss why a well-crafted guide…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why Your Engineering Team Needs a Congestion Budget
Episode 22 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo explores the concept of a congestion budget for engineering teams — a powerful tool to prevent bottlenecks before…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why Your Engineering Team Needs a Congestion Budget
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the concept of a congestion budget for engineering teams—inspired by traffic flow theory. They discuss how a $12…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One Engineer Changed Our Entire Deployment Pipeline
Lucas and Luna explore the story of a single senior engineer who transformed a struggling team's deployment pipeline from a painful two-hour manual process to…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How We Use Architectural Decision Records
Episode 19 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Lucas and Luna dive into Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) — lightweight documents that capture the context and…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why Your Engineering Team Needs an Incident Commander
Lucas and Luna explore the role of an Incident Commander (IC) during major outages. Using the example of a real e-commerce platform outage that cost $300,000…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why Your Engineering Team Needs a Glitch Day
Most engineering teams spend their hackathons building features that never ship. Lucas and Luna explore a different approach: the structured glitch day where…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How We Used Observability to Prevent Outages Before They Happened
In this episode of Tech Leadership, Lucas and Luna explore how proactive observability can prevent outages rather than just help you debug them. They unpack a…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why Your Engineering Team Needs a Platform Team
Episode 15 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo explores the rise of platform engineering. Lucas and Luna discuss why companies like Spotify and Zalando have…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why Your Engineering Team Needs a Code-Freeze Day
Episode 14 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo explores the concept of a code-freeze day — one regular day per week or sprint where no production code is written…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why Your Eng Team Needs a Pre-Mortem Before Every Launch
Lucas and Luna dive into the pre-mortem technique—a structured exercise where an engineering team imagines a project has failed six months in the future and…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why Good Engineers Need Technical Writing Skills
Episode 12 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo dives into why technical writing is a superpower for senior engineers. Lucas and Luna discuss how one CTO at a…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How to Evaluate an Engineering Team's Technical Debt
Lucas and Luna explore how technical debt accumulates in engineering teams and, more importantly, how to measure and prioritize it. Drawing on a real case from…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How to Build an Engineering Ladder That Actually Works
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the messy reality of engineering career ladders. Most companies copy-paste a generic…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why Your Best Engineers Could Be Your Worst Managers
Lucas and Luna explore the common but painful pattern where high-performing senior engineers get promoted into management and struggle. Lucas shares data from…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why Your Team Should Run Blameless Postmortems
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dig into why blameless postmortems are the single highest-leverage practice for engineering…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why Your Engineering Team Needs a Decision Log
Lucas and Luna explore the concept of a decision log — a lightweight document that records every major technical decision, who made it, why, and what…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How We Wrote the Technical Strategy Doc That Actually Got Read
Most technical strategy documents are never read by the people they're written for. Lucas and Luna unpack why—and how one engineering team at a mid-stage SaaS…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
When Engineers Become Bottlenecks
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive problem: senior engineers who become bottlenecks despite their…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why Your CTO Should Not Code
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a controversial topic: should your CTO still be writing production code? They examine…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why We Fired Our Best Engineer
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the controversial but common decision to let go of a top-performing individual contributor who undermined team culture…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How One CTO Cut Cloud Costs by 40 Percent Without Firing Anyone
Episode 2 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna unpack a specific case study: a mid-market SaaS company whose CTO reduced monthly cloud spend from…
- Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
How a $50 Million AWS Bill Changed Our Engineering Strategy
In the debut episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a real-world crisis: a mid-stage SaaS startup whose AWS bill ballooned from…